ACTS I & II | Hear These Words | Acts 2:22-36 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

Let me see that. If you are a guest, we welcome you to 2018-2019, this global family of end-time missionaries, end-time men and women who are serious about the spread of the gospel and the multiplying of disciples. To all of our digital disciples watching live right now across America and around the world, we welcome you to this holy place. You are our family wherever you are. I just want to say that we are tapped in through technology right across the screen. This family is not limited to Atlanta. We are a global family right now of end-time missionaries wherever we are in any country or any continent around the world. We are serious about the mission of Jesus in these final days. We want to give a shout out to all of those who came in town for the 2018-2019 Institute pop-up. 2018-2019 Institute founded last year this seed that we planted to help multiply disciples, local classes, digital classes. We believe that God would grow into a mighty tree should the Lord tarry until he comes. And if you crep into this gathering, you crep into this stream, and you are not a follower of Jesus, man, what a miracle that you are here. We are praying for you that in a moment, maybe while prayer is going forward or while song is being sung or while the gospel is being preached, you would feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit and be brought into this family before time is run out on you. And that is our prayer for you. It is the love of a Father that would convict you of your sin and bring you into the kingdom of light that happened for me over a toilet seat in a bathroom in November 2003. And we pray that that would happen for you in a moment before the arc of the door is closed and it's too late. We are coming down to the end of a series called Acts 1 and 2, in which we are walking through the first two chapters of the book of Acts together as a church. Acts, for those who are here for the first time, is a book of origin preserved for us the history of the formation of the Christian church in the first 30 years of its history written by a man named Luke who was a doctor and a historian in the AD 60s. We are starting the first two chapters of his book together. Our text today is coming from Acts chapter 2 verses 22 to 36. Spirit of the living God. You are a true present in the earth and present in this room and present across this camera. This critical time in history. What is a dead sermon gonna do, Lord? It's not empowered by your spirit. A time, Father, when so many of us are blind and sleeping. We don't have time, Lord, for empty gatherings. Emotionalism and hype. I plead with you, as I do in my prayer time, God, that there would be revival across this nation and around the world. Your sons and daughters will be awakened in this hour. Our hearts burned and set on fire like that baby crying. We would cry out for you globally. Like that baby weeping, we would weep over the state of our nations and our cities. Like that baby who is hungry, we would be hungry for you, for your word, for righteousness. Lord, move in this house, move in this place, move in this moment. Help us. Strengthen us, strengthen the man with the microphone and his weakness. I ask, Lord, in the mighty and the majestic, in the matchless name of our Son, come and king, the Lord Jesus Christ and all God's people said in man. Family, I approached this morning with a lot of grief in my heart. Just over the state of our nation and over the state of the things that's happening right now in the world, I will be the broken record in America. I will continue to sound the alarm until as many people as possible have heard the spirit of God talking to them. I'm telling you that we are living in perilous times. I'm telling America and I'm telling the world that we are living in the final hours of the church age. And I'm telling America and I'm telling the world that we need to wake up all across the city, across this nation and around the world. Right now as I'm talking to you, we're just seeing like the persecution of our brothers and sisters and other nations. We're seeing the persecution of our brothers and sisters across the continent of Africa and all throughout the Middle East. We're seeing the persecution of our brothers and sisters right here and home by each other. While brothers and sisters are being put to death for the faith outside of our country, only in America we as fools are putting our own selves to death with all of our infighting and our persecution. This is the hour, man, to turn from all of the foolishness right now in our nation and to set our gaze on what God has called us to do corporately, to be on mission right now for the Lord Jesus Christ. To go beyond differences, beyond all of our drama, beyond Sunday morning services. This is the hour for the sons and daughters to be awakened across the globe right here in Atlanta and around America. This is the hour for biblical songs and biblical sacrifice. This is the hour for biblical proclamation. And as long as I'm preaching this series with the last three weeks we have, two more coming after this. I want to remind you, two more times if God would allow me, I'm going to be the broken record to tattoo this to your heart. You need to hear me, that we are not helpless in this hour, that we are the most powerful organism in the earth right now. The people of God. I'm going to say this to you every week until this series is over so that you understand that wherever you are there is power, that our prayers have power to change things that's happening right now in America and in the world. We have power in our prayers if we're praying according to the Holy Spirit. There's power in your words if you're speaking according to the Holy Spirit. This is the hour for us to speak. This is the hour for us to pray. This is the hour for us to stand. And we're not doing that in our own strength. My brothers and sisters, we're doing that in the power of the Holy Spirit. And because the Scriptures here in Acts will continuously remind us about the ministry and the power of the Holy Spirit, I will continuously remind you that you are powerful if you're in the fellowship of Christ. Your prayers are powerful. Your words are powerful. Your service is powerful. We are powerful people because we are endowed by the Holy Spirit. There is no religion on the planet that can make that claim. Islam can't make that claim. And Buddhism can't make that claim. Hinduism can't make that claim. You should understand we are the only people in the planet that can make the claim that we are empowered by the Spirit of God, that there is someone dwelling on the inside of you who God has sent to live in there, who is empowering us to do all of his work. We are a different people, a peculiar people, and wherever you are, power shows up right there. I'm going to keep talking to you like this until we finish this series so you will understand what is resident on the inside of you, that we will not look at things on social media and feel like we can't do nothing about it. I don't have to be in Nigeria to do something. I have to kneel down and fight for my brothers and sisters right here where I am in America. I don't have to be in the Middle East. I can kneel down and dethrone principalities and powers right here in the United States of America. You are powerful, and I am powerful, and we are powerful because of the Holy Spirit and the fact that the Holy Spirit is forever united to the church of Christ. And what we approach in our text in these first two chapters of Acts is the origin of when the Holy Spirit was united with the church, especially as it relates to biblical proclamation, which is the text we come to today, the back half of the first Christian message ever preached in the history of mankind. You remember how the Lord Jesus gave two final commands to his church, the same commands that fall on your lap and mines. Go and make disciples of every nation, not make church goers, not make members of a church. He told all of us to multiply committed followers in the way that we serve, pray, give, live. We should be working together to multiply committed followers. He said, then be a witness. Represent me every place that you go, from your home to the way that you deal with your children to your job in the middle of traffic on 75, wherever you are, represent me as a witness of my life, my death and my resurrection. And then he is ascended. He's taken to heaven on a cloud and he will return the same way that he came. He gives a command to his remaining followers, 120 of them go into the city of Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the father. They go into an undisclosed location, an upper room, 120 of them in that upper room. They begin to pray. They replace the dead apostle Judas for a new apostle, Matthias. And as they are praying after 10 days, they hear a sound. The Holy Spirit now coming from heaven like a righty rushing wind. And all of a sudden in that room, they see cloven tongues of fire appear in the ceiling in the room coming down from the sky. It lands on every single one of them. They are baptized in the spirit. They are filled with the spirit and they start speaking in multiple languages a miracle of the mind. 120 of them burst into the crowded streets of Jerusalem. It is the Jewish Feast of Pentecost. The city has swollen by thousands of people and a crowd gathers around the disciples as they are declaring the wonders of God in the languages of the people who are in the streets. They hear the miracles of God in their foreign language and they are amazed. And some of them mock. They said, these men are drunk, man, all this babble coming out of their mouth. Peter, the former coward who ran at the cross, now filled with the Holy Spirit, bowed with the other apostles and ready to follow out the mission of Jesus, stands up with the apostles and he begins to preach to that massive crowd, this young disciple. Luke records his sermon. I want to first read the first half of his sermon that we preached last week in Luke chapter two or Acts chapter two verse 14. But Peter standing with the 11 lifted up his voice and addressed them saying, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give air to my words. But these people are not drunk as you suppose, since it's only the third hour of the day. But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel. And in the last days, in the last days, that's the time we're living in right now. This day started a clock and the clock is counting backwards. When the spirit was poured out on a day of Pentecost started a clock and the clock is counting backwards. And we have less time today than they did in the first century. Peter preaching in the first century announces the last days. It's 2026 years removed. We are living in the last days. We're living in the final moments of the church age. We're living in the hour for the global church to be awakened and to be on mission. He said this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel, that in the last days it shall be God declares that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh, not just pastors and leaders. And your sons and daughters, they will prophesy. They will speak boldly for Jesus. And your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. Even on my male servants and my female servants in those days, I will pour out my spirit. And they will all prophesy. They will all speak. They will all be a witness for Christ. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below. Blood, fire, vapor of smoke. So in this text, declaring the outpouring of the spirit that happened on this day. And in the same text, declaring what's going to happen in the end. The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the day that the Lord comes. That great and magnificent day. No man is going to escape that day. No atheist is going to escape that day. Nobody in a false religion is going to escape that day. Nobody mocking Jesus right now on social media is going to escape that day. In the end, all of our theology will be unified on that day. Nobody running the street and thinking we're too busy to go to church. Don't got time for Jesus. Nobody's going to escape that day. Whoever's attention he does not have now, he will have their attention on that day. Whoever's ignoring him right now, they will not ignore him on that day. I repeat to somebody listening to me right now, you could know him today as a loving savior or meet him later as a wrathful judge. But nobody will ignore him on that day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is the hour to call on the name of the Lord. This is the hour to be honest about your sinful life. This is the hour to say, I need a relationship with God. This is the hour to recognize I am far away from the kingdom. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is the hour to just be honest to say my life is a wreck. I'm wealthy far away from God. I'm poor far away from God. God, I need you. You do not want to die in your sin. You not tough enough to die in your sin. You see, I'm going to make plans to get right with God next week. If you get clipped in a car accident, your plans come to an end. And now you stand before the person you was ignoring while you were sitting in that seat. This is the hour to get right with Christ. I'm going to go so far and say, this is the moment to get right with Christ. Right there in your chair, right there across the camera. This is the moment to say, Lord, forgive me for my sins. I surrender my life to you. You don't even got to wait for an altar call. This is the moment to do that. So Peter, a young man, probably no older than 21-22, former Caldwell ran at the cross. Now a bold apostle filled with the spirit. He stands up in front of a crowd, an international crowd of tens of thousands of people. Jerusalem is packed because it's a festival. He hears them mocking the movement that has just happened on the day of Pentecost. He does not remain silent. He stands up and he preaches the very first Christian sermon. And in his message, the first thing he does is he defends his church. These people are not drunk like you suppose. So he defends the church. The second thing he does is defend the work of the Holy Spirit. No, this ain't Bible. This is what was promised by Joe. This is the spirit of God being poured out on the children of God, on the servants of God. So he defends the church. He will not remain silent. He defends the Holy Spirit. He will not remain silent. And then the back half of his sermon, which we will end today. Last week, we preached the first half of his sermon. This week, we look at the back half of the sermon. The very first Christian sermon ever preached. He defended the spirit. He defended the church. Look at who Peter defends next. Verse 22, he continues his message. Men of Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth. Notice he doesn't say Jesus, Son of God or Jesus the Messiah. He names him by where he is from. Nazareth, the hood in Palestine. Jesus from the hood. Right? Like could any good thing come out of Nazareth is what they said about this city. Like could any good thing come out of Queens, New York? Could any good thing come out of Claco? But God uses the foolish things of this world to confuse the minds of those who think they're wise. How could God use a person like that? How could God use a person that came from a place like that? Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus who was born humble. Jesus from the hood. And man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst. As you yourselves know, stop right there. So in the middle of his sermon, he comes now to the main point of his message. He now defends the Lord Jesus Christ by preaching or proclaiming the life of Christ. Here was a man, he said to the people of Israel, notice who he's talking to. He's not talking to the international crowd. Now he's talking to the people that just 50 days before were shouting in the crowd, crucify him. Crucify him. Crucify him. He's talking to the people of Israel. He's talking to the Jewish nation. He's talking to the same people that rejected him as Messiah. He didn't say to the whole crowd, man of Israel, I'm talking directly to you now. This is biblical proclamation. I'm confronting you now. This Jesus from the hood who came out of a place that you consider unimportant. He reminds them of his life that in his preaching and his teaching, we saw what mighty works working through him by the power of God. We saw what? Signs and wonders. We saw this man who came from the hood, man. Watch, flex over nature. When he was on ships and told storms, be quiet and shut your mouth. We saw this man spit in his hand and rubbed it on blind eyes and saw it cause people to see. We seen that man sticking fingers in girls' ears and open up the deaf ears of people and caused them to hear. We seen that man walk up on people who have been crippled for 38 years and asked them a question, do you want to be healed? The Spirit be asking you the same thing with all of your trauma. Do you want to be healed? How long are you going to hold on to your trauma? How long are you going to make a badge out of your trauma? The Spirit of God is saying to somebody right now in this room, do you want to be healed? Too many of us, our identity is our trauma. I don't know who this is for. The Spirit of God is saying to you, do you want to be healed? We saw him reach down and raise up people who have been crippled for four decades. We've seen him flex over the laws of nature when he raised people from the dead. Mohammed was a dope leader, but he didn't raise nobody from the dead. Joseph Smith started a movement, but he didn't raise nobody from the dead. Confucius was highly intelligent, but he didn't raise nobody from the dead. Buddha got people worshiping him today, but he didn't raise nobody from the dead. He said, this man that came from the hood, we see him flex over the laws of nature. How God was working through him, through those signs, through those miracles, to prove that this is my son, to prove that he is an ordinary man. No man can do the things that Jesus did, apart from the power of the Holy Spirit. So first, he's preaching to them about the life of the one that came from the hood, Nazareth. Let me just remind y'all that Jesus was no ordinary man. He continues his message. This Jesus, verse 23, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God. This is so much hate. He's talking to the Israel nation, the spiritual leaders, the Jew. Crucified him, and you killed him by the hands of lawless men. Now stop right there. He's saying to them, this man that demonstrated all of this miraculous power, you crucified him. Now he moves. Watch the progression of his sermon. He moves from preaching about the life of Christ to now preaching about the death of Christ. And in preaching about the death of Christ, he robs them of the satisfaction of thinking. That y'all got the victory over Christ. He takes off the table from them to think y'all got the victory over him. He says, no, this man that y'all killed, y'all killed him according to God's foreknowledge and plan. Y'all murdered the Son of God, but you murdered him according to the foreknowledge and plan of God. Now stop right there. The text now raises something very powerful in our reality that Peter does not address, but I will address. Peep the text. You killed him, but it was God's plan. You killed him. You did, but it was God's plan. You murdered him, but it was God's plan. And although Peter does not address it, I will address. You know what Peter is raising right here in the text? Right here in the text, you killed him, God's will. You killed him, God's plan. He's raising for us this spiritual reality between the sovereignty of God juxtaposed the will of mankind. This theological thing that some of us struggle to understand, how God's sovereignty operates through the minutiae of the human will of man, that when I think about this, sometimes I sit back and I marvel at God, how in our evil decisions and our good decisions, some way somehow God works through all of the decisions of human beings. All of our evil decisions we be doing and some way somehow God works through all of our evil decisions to still bring about his perfect will in the earth. Like men be doing evil and God still works through all of that evil to bring about his perfect will. It is a reminder to us that no decisions human beings make will hinder the plans of God from being unfolded. One of the most powerful examples of this is in the Old Testament, when a young dude named Joseph got multiple brothers. His father, the man, has favor on him, throws a jacket on him. His brothers are jealous of his jacket. They want to take him out. They snatch him, throw him in a pit, sell him into slavery, go back and tell his father he's dead. That's what jealousy does. It tries to crucify people for things they did not do. Joseph ends up in the house of a wealthy man as a slave and watches through the natural course of time because you don't have to manipulate God's will. You don't have to run ahead of God. The Scripture says, Zeal without wisdom is dangerous. Through the course of time, Joseph ends up the second in command of the most powerful nation on earth at that time, Egypt. Affirmation breaks out in the land and now everybody has to come to Egypt for food. Now here comes his brother decades later coming for food, coming now for government assistance, they're coming out for the wick, the food stamps, all of the things. Watch, I'm going somewhere with this, and they see Joseph and they approach him with guilt. He says, Breathe easy. That evil you did to me decades ago, you meant that for evil. Man's will. But God meant that for good, sovereignty. You sold me into slavery, man's evil, man's will, but God used it, watch, for good, sovereignty. Man, this is just a reminder to somebody in this room to look at you, we robbed the devil of every testimony in your life. That no matter what evil has happened to you, Jesus could get the final word concerning you. This is us looking over our lives and saying, you meant that to me for evil. Man's will, but God is working it right now in my life, for good. God is working it right now in my life. Rate molested, abandoned by a parent, betrayed, left, deceived, taken advantage of. Jesus, thank you Lord. But it made me wiser, it made me stronger, it made me more discerning, it shaped my character, it built my faith, it taught me what friends not to have, what boyfriends not to have, what business partners not to have, what people not to have, and made me look out for the next person that comes that looks just like the last person I've just left. Come on, man. Come on. They meant it for evil. God turned that thing around for good. Can I go deeper? Even your own evil against yourself. Two years into my walk with Jesus, I had a catastrophic fail. But I hurt God and hurt people, and I thought to myself, man, God would never use a person like me again. I would never preach again. I would never preach again. He would never use me again. I would never stand behind a podium again. Here I am. Why? Because I remained inside his will even when I made a mistake. And this is for somebody that watched, not even your own mistakes, not even your own mistakes inside the will of God will hinder his plan from unfolding in your life. Somebody give him praise because… God! That's one of the reasons I'm sold out right now, because my whole life is a second chance. God took what I did to myself for evil and turned it around for my own good. This is the power of sovereignty juxtaposed human will. The illegal trials, human will did not stop the will of God. The arrests, human will did not stop the will of God. The betrayal, human will did not stop the will of God. The beating, human will did not stop the will of God. They nailed them to the cross. Human will, evil men, did not stop the will of God. I just want to, I want to thug somebody out right now. Just thug you out just a little bit. Just stay inside God's will. And don't matter what nobody say, what nobody do, how many videos they make, how much they talk about you, who walk out, who stay, stay inside of God's will. Some of y'all, your enemies is your gift. They think they doing something to you. They're just increasing your reward in heaven. Blessed are you when men persecute you and revile you and say all men of evil against you falsely for my name sake, rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven. Look at all of these trolls that use my name to make money. Just making it better for me where I'm going. Every video they add into my heavenly bank account. Jesus. So he preached them the life of Christ. He preached them the death of Christ. Verse 24, watch the progression of this message. But God raised him up from the dead, losing the pangs. If you've ever had a child, that word is going to mean something to you in about 40 seconds. Loosen the pangs of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Stop right there. He moves from preaching about the life of Christ to now preaching the death of Christ. And now he's preaching about the resurrection of Christ. He says, just Jesus who you killed, God raised him up from the dead. Watch that it was the pangs of death. He raised them up from the death and the pangs of death was there because it was not possible for death to hold him. Pangs is a Greek word that means birthing. That Jesus, that body laid in that tomb and it birthed out of that tomb hope for eternity. It birthed out of that tomb hope for the life to come because he said, watch, it was not possible for death to hold him. The man who called himself the way, the truth, the life. If Jesus is the life, then no grave can hold him. It was not possible for a grave to hold him because he is the life. So the grave had to release him at some point in time because his body could not stay in that grave. For this reason, the scripture says he is the first born from the dead. And for that reason, you and I will be the second born from the dead. See? See? Some of y'all, you patty-kicker, you don't care about this because you don't read the scripture. The scripture says, set your mind on things above. But we don't do that. All your mind is set on everything now. That's why some of you, your heart is so filled with so much trauma all the time. The scripture says, set like a thermostat. The thermostat don't move on its own. You have to program the thermostat. The scripture says, watch this, like a thermostat. Set your mind on things above. The more you set your mind on what's coming, the more you have strength for the trials in this life, the more you don't get so overly tethered to the things of this life, the more you can go through hell and keep bouncing back because you have a hope that goes beyond this life. You think that's empty rhetoric? I think about eternity all the time. Now, some of y'all don't do this because when you think heaven, you think we're just going to be floating around on clouds with little harps and wings all day long and you think boring. Because you don't read to the end of Revelation when you realize heaven is temporary in terms of us being there. It says, from heaven God will make his home with men. We're in the new earth. That God is preparing a world like this with air, trees, water, food, laughter, relationships. Imagine the life you have right now with no tears, no sickness in your body, no betrayals, no deceitful men, no crazy people. It's a life without the pain that you hate right now. Every time you shed a tear saying, God, why is this happening? You need to remember he went to prepare a place that will be like life without all of those tears. So because Jesus was the first born from the dead, you will be the second born from the dead. This has given us hope for a life to come beyond this life. This is important because this anchors the church without the resurrection, Christianity does not exist. So now watch. Watch his sermon. He preached them the life of Christ. He preached to them the death of Christ. He preached to them the resurrection of Christ. And then in case any of them did not believe in the resurrection of Christ. Now watch what he does next. Remember this is Pentecost. Remember this is 50 days after Christ was crucified. Remember that the Pharisees created a false narrative that the disciples stole the body. Watch where I'm going with this. So right now in Jerusalem, the word on the streets is Jesus wasn't really raised. Those disciples hijacked his body. That's floating around the streets. That's the narrative in the streets. So Peter now goes back to the word of God. That's what biblical preaching is supposed to do. Verse 25. For David says concerning him, I saw the Lord always before me. For he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. My flesh also will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or you will not allow your holy one to seek corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life and you will make me full of gladness with your presence. Now family stop here. Everybody look. Who is Peter preaching to? Jews. What did they have at their disposal? The Old Testament. The Old Testament that they memorized the Torah. They would memorize Psalms. They will memorize words from the prophets. He's preaching to them that the man you killed is the man y'all have been waiting for. And the evidence of that is what David wrote right here. Now watch. He's quoting Psalm 16. But what a lot of them don't realize is that Psalm 16 verses 8 through 11 is not about David. He's using for them the law of double reference. The law of double reference, the principle of double reference teaches that the Spirit of God wrote through certain people in first person the voice of somebody else coming in the future. Because the whole Old Testament, what they did not realize reveals Christ. This is why Jesus when he was on the road of Emmaus said to two disciples, beginning with the Old Testament, he taught them about himself. That is from Genesis to Malachi. It all reveals Christ. So this Psalm that King David wrote, a lot of them thought David was talking about himself. But he's saying David was not talking about himself. This is double reference. David writing in first person the voice of Christ coming a thousand years later in the future. Now if we understand that these are the words of Christ, his sentiments, his heart, and you go back and you read it, you read it through the lens that this is Jesus talking through David. Now read it again as Christ. I Christ saw the Lord, my father, always before me. That is my whole life was set on the Father. I never took my eyes off of Him. For He is at my right hand. I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. He's talking about facing death. My flesh will also dwell in hope. Stop. How could a man facing death say my flesh will dwell in hope? Why is the Lord saying this? He's talking like this because he has confidence that the Father will not leave his body in a grave. He trusts so much in God, the Father, that He willingly laid down his life, believing that if I lay down my life, the Father will raise me from the dead. This is me telling you that you can have confidence in the Word of God and that whatever the Scripture says about you, you can believe that it is true, that at some point in time, this can't be just things you post on Instagram or your little morning devotional. When you open this book, you are reading the words of God. And whatever he says, you got to believe that, man. This is me having a medical condition in my body right now, but believing that God is a healer because His Word says so. This is me having a medical condition in my body and two weeks ago calling people to the altar for healing because, watch, my medical condition does not change His character. This is me believing that He is a provider because He said so, believing He is a healer because He said so, believing that He is with me because He said so. This is you feeling like, man, God, where are you in this trial? And you remember what He said in Psalm 20, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Man, you fear no evil, man. When you start seeing the Scriptures like that, not just something to post, but something to tattoo to your heart, man, it changes the way that you live, think, walk, feel. The Lord was able to face death with hope. Why? Verse 27, For you will not abandon my soul to Hades. You will not leave me in a grave. You will not allow my body to seek corruption. The Lord laid in a grave for three days, not long enough for His body to seek corruption. Why? The Father honored His Word. Jesus knew from the Old Testament Scriptures that if He gave His life for the sins of man, the Lord would not leave Him in a grave. That's why that trust is seen on the cross when He says, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. He says, man, you have made known to me the paths of life. That is, I will be resurrected. You will make me full of gladness with your presence when I'm seated at your right hand. Now he explains the text. Verse 29, Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the Patriarch David who wrote that song, that he is both died and buried and his tomb is with us at his day just south of Jerusalem. Muhammad is still in his tomb and Joseph Smith is still in his tomb and Confucius is still in his tomb and Buddha is still in his tomb and the progenitor of every religion is still in their tomb and David was also in his tomb. So he's saying because David is in his tomb, he could not have been writing about himself. The Psalm is about resurrection and since David is in a tomb, he can't be writing about himself. Verse 30, Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, David, that he would set one of his own descendants on his throne since Jesus came through the family lineage of David, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see corruption. So Peter, watch, is robbing them of false theology. This is what good preachers do. The preaching of God destroys bad doctrine that if any one of these Jews believed that David was writing about himself, he's now using the scriptures to show them that David is dead and in a tomb, he could not have been writing about himself. David by the Spirit was writing about the one the child killed. This is him destroying bad theology because bad theology is dangerous. The study of God coming through the wrong mouth will make you believe things about God that's not true and will eclipse the glory of Christ and will lift up in your heart things that should not be there. And what he is doing is destroying bad doctrine and false theology with the word of God. That's why you should be thankful whenever you are connected to biblical teaching that is sound and that is good theology. So it builds you up into the man and woman you are supposed to be. He finishes the sermon. This Jesus, God raised up and of that we are all witnesses. Like we need to be witnesses of his life in a way that we talk and we live of his death and us killing our flesh and our will. Not my will, your will be done and in this resurrection living a life that is transformed, being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise Holy Spirit he has poured out this that yourselves are seeing and hearing. One more thing I want to say to you before I pray. Did you see what Peter just said? Okay, no, no, no. No you didn't. No you didn't. Did you see what Peter just said? He said the Spirit of God was poured out from Christ He's talking to Jews that believe that he's still dead. Okay, all right, fill up we don't understand. He said poured out for something to be poured out and must come from the top down. That means the Spirit on that day came from heaven down to the earth on those people. But the Spirit could only come according to John if Jesus was in heaven. So if he was still in a tomb the Spirit cannot be poured out. Why? Because a dead man in a grave can't pour out from heaven the Holy Spirit. Watch. This is why the best evidence for the resurrection is not only doctrine but you. Okay, watch. Everybody under the sound of my voice who know that you're saved just wave at me. You know the moment your life changed if you've ever felt conviction you've ever felt the Spirit leading you you've ever felt the Spirit guiding you you ever felt the Spirit talking to you you've ever felt the Spirit don't do this don't go there have you ever felt the Spirit comforting you as her do you know for fact the Spirit is in you do you know the moment when your eyes was open you realized oh snap I'm in the kingdom right the fact that the Spirit is in you is evidence that Christ is not in a grave your life is proof of the resurrection for the Spirit cannot be in you if Christ was dead somewhere in a box how's that for the next atheist that runs up on you on the college campus saying now Jesus there's no way a man could be raised from the dead you're right not by his own power but the fact that the Spirit is in you you know who you're talking to you know what kind of man I was Rob people at gunpoint destroyed the lives of women selling crack at the age of 12 reckless in the street Christian parents you think I'm doing all of this right now out of out of goodwill I'm being led by someone on the inside of me you're being led by someone on the inside of you that person on the inside of you could not be there if Christ was in a box for a dead man cannot pull out something that must come from heaven when he arrives he said the father did not pour out the Spirit he says he gave that authority to Christ that means the Son must be there in order to pour out the Spirit you are evidence of the resurrection girl you used to be ratchet my ninja you used to be crazy what happened to you I got filled with the Spirit that came from a Messiah who is alive alive you Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. That's why I'm like this, because somebody's on the inside of me who's alive. He finishes his message, for David did not ascend into the heavens. He's dead, but he himself says, the Lord, the Father said to my Lord, Christ, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. That is the Father said to the Son, stay right here until I send you back to deal with all of your enemies. Talking about judgment coming for those on the wrong side of theology. Ain't got time to play church when judgment is coming. And let all of the house of Israel, Peter said, therefore know for certain that God has made him Christ, both Lord, Master, and the anointed one, the Messiah, this Jesus whom you crucified. The man they nailed to the cross, he nailed their sin to their heart. That is the power of gospel proclamation for the scriptures as after this, they were cut to the heart. They felt convicted. That's the power of biblical preaching. That where there is biblical Holy Spirit filled preaching, it will confront you in sin. It will rob you of false comfort. It will meet you where you are and not leave you where you are. It will lovingly tell you about yourself. It will exalt the person of Christ. It will exegete the scriptures. It has the power to heal, the power to transform, the power to change, the power to reveal. Is that the preaching we're hearing in America? Is that the preaching you hear on social media? Is that the preaching you hear at your church? Is that the preaching we hear in this hour? Is that the preaching we hear across the world? Is this not the preaching we need in this hour? The preaching of Peter, Spirit filled gospel proclamation that cuts people in the heart? Is this not the preaching we need in these final hours of the church age? No more fluff, no more garbage, no more secular humanistic doctrine, no more lies from the pulpit, no more being afraid to tell people the truth for the sake of man-made approval. No more being addicted to people pleasing. Where there is love, there is confrontation. This is what we need in America around the world in this hour, what Peter preached. The life of Christ, the death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, Christ. The biblical, exegetical preaching that stands on the fidelity of the Word, brings sinner to the kingdom, transforms Satan to missionaries. So Father in the name of Yeshua, ha-mashir, Christ, I pray for an explosion in this hour of biblical proclamation across America and around the world. I pray God for the exaltation of Christ in America and around the world. I pray God for a gospel spreading across America and around the world that is biblical and powerful and empowered by the Holy Spirit preaching, teaching, that heals, transforms, confronts, convicts and brings the sinner. That snatches people from the fires of hell and transforms men, women, teenagers and children into witnesses and missionaries. Time out for nonsense in these final hours. You hear my prayer, let revival break out off the backs of gospel preaching in cities and countries all around the world in these final hours of the church age. We ask this in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our soon coming king, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now somebody in this room, take the roof off this place and get back up.